Ferns British and exotic - v. 7 Author:Edward Joseph Lowe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GENUS VI. HYPODERRIS. R. Brown. A Solitary species, native of the Island of Trinidad. The name is from Hypo under, and Dems a skin, in allusion to the a... more »ttachment of the indusium, of which a portion is buried under the sori. Distinguished from the genus Woodsia, by having reticulated venation; it does not difier in any other respect, except in habit. Fronds stipitate, simple, entire, or trilobate. Rhizoma creeping. Sori circular, irregular, or uniserial on either side of the primary veins, and being formed at the points of confluence of numerous veinlets. VOL. VII. ? i s :'.: XIV-V.-L. T. HYPODERRIS BROWNII. J. Smith. Fee. Hooker And Bauer. PLATE XIV. VOL. VII. Woodsta Brownii, Mettbnius. Hypoderris—TJnder-tke-skin. Brownii—Named in honour of the late ?. Brown, t lie eminent Botanist. A Singular, handsome, and rare Fern, but little known in cultivation in this country. An evergreen stove species. Native of the Island of Trinidad and Guiana. Introduced into England about the year 1850. The fronds, which are simple or trilobate, are oblong-acuminate in form, the lateral lobes being very small in comparison with the central one. Fronds undulated, somewhat membranous; base cordate, margin of the frond entire. Stipes and rachis thickly scaly, the scales being diminutive and whitish. Fronds lateral and adherent to a creeping and scaly rhizoma. Veins anastomosing and reticulated. Sori usually scattered throughout the whole under side of the frond. Length from twelve to twenty-four inches; colour light green. The lower four to nine inches of frond naked. For fronds my thanks are due to Sir W. J. Hooker, Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew; and to Mr. George Norman, of Hull. It may be procured of Messr...« less